Experimental Study of Site-Specific Soil Water Content and Rainfall Inducing Shallow Landslides: Case of Gakenke District, Rwanda by Martin Kuradusenge, Santhi Kumaran, Marco Zennaro, Albert Niyonzima

“…Among the sampled sites, the sites covered by forest indicated no sign of slope failure, whereas sites with crops could slip. …”
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Flood hazard simulation and mapping using digital elevation models with different resolutions by G.R. Puno, R.C.C. Puno, I.V. Maghuyop

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Where We Rate: The Impact of Urban Characteristics on Digital Reviews and Ratings by Özge Öztürk Hacar, Müslüm Hacar, Fatih Gülgen, Luca Pappalardo

“…The study employs a random forest machine learning model to predict review volumes and ratings, categorized into high and low classes. …”
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Influence of seeding rates on the quantum yield of photosynthesis for some field crops by K. S. Panchenko, N. V. Ovcharova, L. V. Sokolova, M. M. Silantyeva

“…The work was carried out in the steppe and forest-steppe zone of Altai Territory. The scheme of the experiment was conducive to studying the quantum yield of photosynthesis as a method for assessing various seeding rates in the fields of sunflower grown for seeds (‘Pioneer LE 10’) and maize grown for silage (‘Clifton’). …”
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Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Changes 2005–2020 Jagorawi Highway Corridor by Tiara Pratiwi Kusumah Wardani, Lilik Budi Prasetyo, Yudi Setiawan

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Mapping of land degradation using spectral angle mapper approach (SAM): the case of Inaouene watershed (Northeast Morocco) by Benzougagh, Brahim, Meshram, Sarita Gajbhiye, Fellah, Bouchta El, Mastere, Mohamed, Basri, Mohamed El, Ouchen, Ibrahim, Sadkaoui, Driss, Bammou, Youssef, Moutaoikil, Nassima, Turyasingura, Benson

“…The fndings of the study are seven main land cover categories: arboriculture (0.08%), cereal (35.05%), water (1.03%), forests (3.76%), residentials (4.61%), matorral-course (4.58%), and bare soils (50.89%). …”
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Assessing the Effects of Land Use Practices on Land Cover in Bubare Sub-County Rubanda District. by Kembabazi, Naome

“…This study examined the impact of land use practices on land cover in Bubare sub-county, Rubanda district, addressing three main objectives: to identify and characterize land use practices in Bubare, to assess how farming systems influence forest cover, and to evaluate the effectiveness of land use policies in managing local land resources. …”
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Molecular epidemiology of anaplasmosis in small ruminants along a human-livestock-wildlife interface in Uganda by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Simon Peter, Musinguzi

“…Small ruminants located at the forest edge (<0.3 km) showed higher A. ovis prevalence than those found inland with infections present in the midland regions associated with increased agricultural activity. …”
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Molecular epidemiology of anaplasmosis in small ruminants along a human-livestock-wildlife interface in Uganda by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Susan Christina, Welburn

“…Small ruminants located at the forest edge (<0.3 km) showed higher A. ovis prevalence than those found inland with infections present in the midland regions associated with increased agricultural activity. …”
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Relapse-free survival is progressively shortened in a subset of Black patients with immune-mediated TTP treated in the rituximab era by Ayotola Fatola, Michael D. Evans, Jenna Brown, Elizabeth Davis, Andrew Johnson, Ana G. Antun, Andrew M. Farland, Ryan Woods, Ara Metjian, Yara A. Park, Gustaaf de Ridder, Briana Gibson, Raj S. Kasthuri, Darla K. Liles, Susan Eubanks, Frank Akwaa, Todd Clover, Lisa Baumann Kreuziger, J. Evan Sadler, Meera Sridharan, Ronald S. Go, Keith R. McCrae, Harsh Vardhan Upreti, Ming Y. Lim, Nicole K. Kocher, Radhika Gangaraju, X. Long Zheng, Jay S. Raval, Camila Masias, Spero R. Cataland, Marshall Mazepa, Shruti Chaturvedi

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Phasic and periodic change of drought under greenhouse effect by Yang Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Yaochen Qin, Haifeng Tian, Zhixiang Xie, Peijun Rong

“…In the future, the project of afforestation and returning farmland to forest and grassland in this region can increase the planting proportion of water-loving tree species to obtain better ecological benefits. …”
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Prediction of Winter Wheat Parameters with Planet SuperDove Imagery and Explainable Artificial Intelligence by Gabriele De Carolis, Vincenzo Giannico, Leonardo Costanza, Francesca Ardito, Anna Maria Stellacci, Afwa Thameur, Sergio Ruggieri, Sabina Tangaro, Marcello Mastrorilli, Nicola Sanitate, Simone Pietro Garofalo

“…The ML models tested were random forest (RF), support vector regressor (SVR), and extreme gradient boosting (XGB). …”
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Study on the effects of land use transformation on habitat quality and its driving mechanisms: a case study of the Qin-Mang River Basin by Jiwei Zhao, Luyao Wang, Dong Jia, Yaowen Wang

“…To improve HQ, it is recommended to strictly enforce ecological protection red lines, control the expansion of built-up areas, improve ecological compensation mechanisms, and promote ecological restoration measures such as returning farmland to forest and grassland.…”
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Fates of nutrient elements and heavy metals during thermal conversion of cattle slurry-derived anaerobic digestates by Daniel J. Lane, Olli Sippula, Jorma Jokiniemi, Mikko Heimonen, Niko M. Kinnunen, Perttu Virkajärvi, Narasinha Shurpali

“…The combustion ashes contained both high concentrations of P (around 7 w/w%) and acceptable concentrations of regulated heavy metals (Cu, and Zn) for application on agricultural and forest soils in Finland. Phosphorous was retained in the combustion ashes in the form of whitlockite. …”
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Improving fluoroprobe sensor performance through machine learning by D. Lafer, A. Sukenik, T. Zohary, O. Tal

“…We compared Extreme Gradient Boosting, Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Random Forest algorithms to assess community structure based on FP raw data. …”
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Diversity and Abundance of the Species of Arboreal Mammals in a Tropical Rainforest in Southeast Mexico by J. Vladimir Rojas‐Sánchez, Rosamond Ione Coates, Víctor Sánchez‐Cordero, Mario C. Lavariega, José J. Flores‐Martínez

“…Tropical rainforests harbor a rich mammal diversity with a wide range of species using different habitats, ranging from forest‐dwelling to arboreal species. Recent techniques such as camera trapping have proven to be useful to study the ecology of arboreal mammals. …”
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A Novel CGM Metric-Gradient and Combining Mean Sensor Glucose Enable to Improve the Prediction of Nocturnal Hypoglycemic Events in Patients with Diabetes by Jingzhen Li, Xiaojing Ma, Igbe Tobore, Yuhang Liu, Abhishek Kandwal, Lei Wang, Jingyi Lu, Wei Lu, Yuqian Bao, Jian Zhou, Zedong Nie

“…In addition, the prediction was conducted by four algorithms, namely, logistic regression, support vector machine, random forest, and long short-term memory. The results revealed that the gradient of CGM showed a downward trend before hypoglycemic events happened. …”
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Policy relevant crop diversity monitoring based on earth observation and farmers’ declarations by Marijn van der Velde, Martin Claverie, Raphaël d’Andrimont, Melissande Machefer, Simona Bosco, Rui Catarino, Frank Dentener, Vincenzo Angilieri

“…The EO-based map allows identifying how crop diversity varies at an informative spatial resolution, e.g. in areas dominated by mono-cropping or with extensive forest cover. Here we compare the crop diversity calculated from top–down EO-data and bottom–up farmers’ declarations in the Netherlands using the EO-based map (more than 84 millions 10 m pixels) and 2018 Dutch farmers declarations (more than 323 thousands parcels). …”
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La ocupación del suelo en un municipio de la Región Metropolitana de Barcelona: desafíos y oportunidades by Anna Badia Perpinyà, Àngel Cebollada Frontera, Ana Vera Martín, Meritxell Gisbert Traveria, Enric Mendizábal Riera, Antoni Francesc Tulla Pujol

“…Los CUCS pueden ser causantes de espacios de riesgo y costes asociados a la dispersión urbana, entre los que destacan los incendios en la interfaz urbano-forestal (IUF) y la movilidad no sostenible de una población dispersa. …”
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Comparative efficacy of chemical peels and laser treatments in melasma: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Ingyu Lee, SeoWon Kang, JinHan Lee, Hyungin Cho, Ki Won Lee, Dongkeun Lim

“…Data were synthesized using standardized mean differences (SMD) with 95% confidence intervals (CI), and forest and funnel plots were used to evaluate efficacy and publication bias. …”
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